AFC 7 SERIES PREVIEW: Preview of The Australian Fishing Championships Series 7.

AFC Fans

I now have the On Air dates for the Series 7 of AFC. A few changes this year - one being that there's a break between the first and last half of the season (on Ch 10), and the second being that it's showing on Saturdays on ONE HD.

This means that the second half of the season will be seen on OneHD first, before Ch 10.

AFC is shot in HD this year.

TEN / SOUTHERN CROSS
Sun 20/12/2009 1.00pm AFC Celebrity Episode BREAM Gold Coast
Sun 27/12/2009 1.00pm BARRA - Lake Awoonga
Sun 03/01/2010 13.00 BARRA - Lake Monduran
Sun 10/01/2010 13.00 BASS - Lake Gregory
Sun 07/03/2010 13.00 BASS - Lake Boondooma
Sun 21/03/2010 13.00 BREAM - Redcliffe
Sun 04/04/2010 13.00 BREAM - Tweed River

ONE HD
Sat 26/12/2009 5.00pm AFC Celebrity Episode BREAM Gold Coast
Sat 02/01/2010 5.00pm BARRA - Lake Awoonga
Sat 09/01/2010 5.00pm BARRA - Lake Monduran
Sat 16/01/2010 5.00pm BASS - Lake Gregory
Sat 23/01/2010 5.00pm BASS - Lake Boondooma
Sat 30/01/2010 5.00pm BREAM - Redcliffe
Sat 06/02/2010 5.00pm BREAM - Tweed River

Check local guides for any variations.

Cheers,

Stephen Morgan

Top Tinaroo Barra

Geoff Mayes | December 09

Andrew Tivey caught this impressive 125cm barra on a Storm plastic at Lake Tinaroo recently.

Fishing conditions have been ideal for local far northern fishers as we fish through the final month of 2009 and enter a new fishing year.

Since November we have had typical, hot summer conditions with little sign of the much-anticipated, wet season rains. But things can change quickly at this time of the year.

December is a top month here in the north and usually provides some good options whether you’re taking advantage of calm offshore conditions to do some bottom fishing or chasing our prime inshore species like fingermark and jacks in the cooler times of the day.

Inshore fishing lately has been good with some excellent quality fish around in all the local rivers and estuaries. There have been some trophy sized beauties of our favourite species, including large barramundi (which have been released), fingermark, queenfish, golden trevally and GT.

Some good runs of blue salmon and smaller numbers of king salmon have appeared on the northern beaches, Baron, Delta and the Cairns Inlet flats. These species will also be worth chasing throughout December.

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